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7. Org. headquartered in Providence, RI 8. Mythical birds 9. People: Prefix 10. Time of change 11. Dog breed also known as Russian wolfhound 12. Unit of digital information consisting of eight bits, or a group of eight musicians 13. Wood-shaping tool 18. D.E.A. agent Flux”: 2005 Charlize Theron film 19. “ adapted from an MTV series Victor: record company that introduced 22. the 45 RPM record in 1949 23. Place between ones and hundreds 24. Revise 26. Businessman William, founder of an American department store chain 29. Public-key cryptosystem: Abbr. (named for the surnames of the algorithm’s inventors) 30. Charged particle 31. Meadow 32. Below the strike zone minor” J.S. Bach work 36. “Mass 37. “Get it?” 38. College, in the U.K. Browne: one of the first 39. Marjorie African-American women to receive a Ph.D. in Mathematics in the USA, from U. Michigan in 1949 40. Petunia Dursley, to Harry Potter 41. He’s a horse, of course, of course 44. Some logical connectives 45. British mathematician Simon, student of John Conway and one of the co-authors of the “ATLAS of Finite Groups” 46. Herman Melville novel subtitled “A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas” 47. Place to get oysters and steamers 48. The collection of elements of the form $a {1,j}$ in the matrix $A$ 49. “Hold your horses!” 50. Jacques Cousteau’s equipment 54. It runs through Cairo 55. Phrase to wrap up a seminar talk: conclusion...” “ 57. Williams College athletes, based on an eponym of the school’s original benefactor ” 58. “My country, ’tis of 59. Luis von , Carnegie Mellon University Professor and founder of reCAPTCHA 60. Telecom. giant that merged with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon de France 61. 62. Antlered animal ··· 63. · · ·
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From the Files of Past MAGAZINE Editors J. Arthur Seebach and Lynn Arthur Steen 1976–1980 To highlight how technology has changed the way that editorial work is done: as editor of the M AGAZINE, Lynn Arthur Steen used to cut accepted manuscripts apart and paste them using rubber cement onto pages to indicate the layout of the articles for the printer.
